Description: The essays set Weber's political thought in relationship to his predecessors (Constant, Bagehot, Nietzsche), contemporaries (Sombart, Schmitt, Benjamin), later (Arendt, Sartre) or contemporary scholars (Skinner, Koselleck) and current Weber studies (Hennis, Scaff, Ghosh).
Review Quotes: 'In this very needed monograph on Max Weber's political thought, Kari Palonen engages through the work of this great theorist with some of the most urgent issues of our times, like the role of temporality in political deliberation, the relationship between ethics and politics, and the political style of thinking and acting politically. A tour de force and a challenging text for those who study and practice politics.' Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University